02326cam a2200265 4500 1262069056 TxAuBib ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781982131906 pbk. 198213190X pbk. TxAuBib Harmel, Kristin, author. The book of lost names / Kristin Harmel. First Gallery Books trade paperback edition. New York, NY : Gallery Books, 2021. 388 pages ; 21 cm. Includes Book Club Favorites Reader's Guide. This book was donated to the Clark State College Library by Mark Hopkins, the Adjunct IV - Arts and Sciences instructor in the English Department at Clark State College. Eva Traube Abrams, a semiretired librarian in Florida, is at the returns desk one morning when her eyes lock on to a photograph in a newspaper nearby. She freezes; it's an image of a book she hasn't seen in sixty-five years--a book she recognizes as the Book of Lost Names. The accompanying article describes the looting of libraries across Europe by the Nazis during World War II--an experience Eva remembers all too well. As a graduate student in 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town in the Free Zone, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Reỳ, Eva decides she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remmeber who they really are. The records they keep in the Book of Last Names will become even more vital when the Resistance cell they work with is betrayed and Reỳ disappears. As the Germans close in, Eva records a last, vital message in the book. Decades later, does she have the strength to seek out its answer--and help reunite those lost during the war. Librarians Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 France Fiction. Jews France Fiction. France History German occupation, 1940-1945 Fiction.